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We can just make it illegal if we want. We can pass a law and then enforce that law. There’s plenty of precedent for similar laws. Credit reports are another f
by CPLX 3y ago
We can just make it illegal if we want. We can pass a law and then enforce that law.
There’s plenty of precedent for similar laws. Credit reports are another form of aggregating information about you that comes from other people’s reporting and it’s extremely circumscribed.
You can’t keep files on what people think of my credit history without following very very detailed rules, as well as being strictly liable in private action for breaking any of the rules even by small technicalities.
We can outlaw this if we want. Or restrict it heavily.
I’m tired of listening to arguments that we can’t regulate commerce. It’s just learned helplessness after listening to generations of corporate lobbying.
- systems_glitch 3y agoYup, strict rules, harsh punishments. Hope we see it come to pass.
- genocidicbunny 3y ago> I’m tired of listening to arguments that we can’t regulate commerce. It’s just learned helplessness after listening to generations of corporate lobbying. Exactly. We don't need to go on some moral and ethical odyssey to discover where the line is. We can just draw a line and say "thats the line." The notion that we must be fair and equitable to business and commerce is tiring. No, we don't.
- pixl97 3y agoYou can make a law to outlaw it, what you cannot expect is the side that does not want that law to not voice their opinions and not make arguments counter to yours. You're going to have to do a lot of work if you want to pass such a law.
- CPLX 3y agoI expect the other side to attempt to influence politicians with money by hiring their former staffers and children as lobbyists, paying them off with bullshit speaking gigs, planting opinion pieces and influencing online commentators, and any of the thousand other ways big business tries to bulldoze consumers in this country. What's that got to do with anything? The point I'm making, of course, is that "fuck these people" is the right way to think about it. There's no human right to make money off selling license plate data or something. People can find another business model or something else to do with their lives. Fuck them, and fuck their consumer privacy invading businesses.
- pixl97 3y agoAt least in the US the law starts at "this is allowed", the imperative then is for you to promote a law saying it is forbidden. As much as you, me, or anyone else thinks it's the right thing to do, you still have to go through the process of making a law just like the opposition group does.